Positive Impacts of Information Technology on Family, Eldercare and Parenting

An information system is defined as a sociotechnical, formal and organizational system which is used to collect, transfer, and store and process information. A computer information technology is a software that provides a platform to analysis a large amount of consumer data and many organizations are using this step to handle the consumer’s data or information (Anderson, 2007). Small and large business industries involve this process to manage their operations, compete in the marketplace and communicate with their consumers and suppliers. The main objective of this report is to analysis the impact of information technology on family, eldercare and parenting issues and ethical issues associated with the information system.

Information technology is one of the advanced innovations in the area of communication and use of IT tools is growing rapidly. In the modern era, every person uses smartphones and computer system by which they are not able to communicate with their family members and parents (Angst, & Agarwal, 2009). Information technology is used to interconnect the cyber world whether it is for medical, education and other private purposes. It is common trend among adults that they use social media to research new topic and find new services which help them during their day to day life such as health care consultancy for family, and elder people. It is also a trend that most of the parents use social media and online services to find the solution of any question and children’s uses such process to play games, chat with friends and send data or information from one location to another. There are many positive impacts of information technology in these modern eras which are described below:

In the last few years, most consumers uses information technology to inform their family members or parents if the day’s plan got changed by which they can easily manage their time. Information technology provides a way to communicate with their friends and family from any location and they can change plans suddenly by sending a text message (Bélanger, & Crossler, 2011).

It is observed that many individuals face the issue of location and it produce a complexity to reach the location of another person. To avoid such kind of issue information technology developed location tracking system by which people can reach the location of their friends or family.

There are numerous applications by which people can communicate with their parents, family members and others like Facebook, Instagram and what Sapp. If any person is doing a job in another country then he can easily see and talk with their parents by using information technologies.

There are many negative impacts of information technology on family, eldercare and other which are described below:

This is one of the biggest problems for every parents and family member because their children spend more than 4 hours on a mobile screen, computer system. When children and parents come from office or school, it is very important to communize with each other but they use their mobiles and social Media (Blumenthal, 2009). It increases a communication gap between parents and children due to which they can lose their values and they use only information technology to play the game, watch movies and communicate with other.

Negative impacts of Information Technology on Family, Eldercare and Parenting

It is very important to share a few times with family members but in this generation, many children and individuals use mobiles to devices to communicate with their family. It is very significant to switch off mobile devices for at least 2 hours and spend times with friends and parents. A recent study shows that the habit of bringing work home is the key reasons of failing relationships.

In this modern era, the mode of communication has changed and most consumers’use social media to interact with other as compare to face to face communication. This affects children and elder as they will have a very poor face to face communication skills when they grow up. Due to which few people cannot communicate with others in the meeting and also affects the professional performance of children.

The information technology is kinds of process that transfer data or information with the help of hardware, digital electronics, telecommunications and software. A recent study shows that there is an ethical agenda linked with the use of information technology and the impact of IT has been tremendous (Buchanan, & Hvizdak, 2009). There are many consumers that use information technology to share data or information but they use third-party application by which data breach problem can be increased. So, individuals can adopt security plans to protect their personal data. Most the hackers use malicious software to collect personal information of consumer and they can easily block their peripheral devices. The increment in ICT technologies also increases negative impacts on society and it promotes the cyber-crimes by which people can lose their personal data files (Buhalis, & Law, 2008). There are many issues occur in IT, for example, corporate privacy, invasion of the consumer, user and societal right, intellectual property rights and values preservation.

It is identified that there are mainly three kinds of ethical issues faced in information technology, for example, harmful actions, personal privacy and access right. In personal privacy, information technology provides a way to transfer data from one location to another and they use internet by which people can lose their personal privacy of data. it is a very serious problem for any organization and individuals to secure their personal data because hackers generate high traffic and unwanted networks and send on the computer system of consumers (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin, & Blumenthal, 2011). By which they can enter into their system and block all personal data files and they demand money to restore back their information. The second ethical issue is access right in which every consumer use mobile or computer system and internet connectivity to interconnect with their friends. They also use third party applications which are developed by hackers and the problem of data breach occur when they use unauthentic servers. Without developing and implementing the computer security policies the issue of hacking cannot be avoided from illegal accesses (Pardo, & Siemens, 2014).

According to a recent investigation the harmful action is defined as negative consequences like loss of data, loss of information, and property damage. The harmful action involves modification of data files and programs that increase the issue of cyber-attack. Many children play the game in their mobile devices that require internet connectivity and signup process for which they provided their personal details like name, mobile number and mail ID (Choi, Lee, & Yoo, 2010). Attackers communicate with people by sending fraud emails to their accounts and people click on the unwanted link by which hackers collect their personal information and they suffer from the issue of data breaching (Orlikowski, 2009). There are various security tools and techniques by which such kinds of issues can be addressed which are described below:

• Use of firewall and antiviruses software
• Encryption technology
• Cryptography
• Robust technique
• Update software on regular basis (Smith, Dinev, & Xu, 2011).

Conclusion

Information technology is very popular innovation in the area of communication and many individuals and companies use this approach to analysis data, share information and interact with others. This report described the impact of information technology on family, eldercare and parents and their ethical and privacy issues. The main problem occurs with information technology is the lack of security by which users can lose their personal information. People should ensure that they use only authentic servers and networks during data transfer by which the issue of data breaching can be handled and they can adopt firewall, encryption and cryptography techniques.

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